In part, the publishers' intention was to inform potential immigrants
about life in Argentina and encourage people to settle there. Over the years
the Handbook also became a compendium of useful information about the
country that was widely distributed abroad.

The first edition has a section of 38 pages that contains the names of over 1,500 'Foreigners
resident in Buenos Ayres'. The register, while far from complete, is a very
useful guide to those who had already emigrated to Argentina by the beginning of 1863,
especially among the Irish, English and Scottish communities.

I have decided to present the Mulhall list in two ways. The first is the
list as it was printed, in alphabetical order of surname and forename.
This has been lightly edited to put the names in correct alphabetical
order, adding last minute information contained in the appendix
and sundry references to people in the main body of the book.

As you click on any letter, you will see that the information
is laid out in four columns. The first three contain the 1863 data provided
by the Handbook. The fourth column is provided for additional
notes. If you have any brief supplementary facts about any person in these lists,
Jeremy Howat would be glad to hear about it.

My second listing is divided in two: those who were living in the
city of Buenos Aires, who are listed in street order; and those living
in the suburbs and country districts who are listed in location order.

The list of 'Foreigners resident in Buenos Ayres' only names the
heads of families, and therefore few women and no dependants are mentioned.
The compilers also seem to have restricted the listing to professional
and trades people.

At the time that the Mulhalls first published the Handbook, the
Argentine provinces were just emerging as a united nation. But for practical
reasons they decided to restrict their list of 'Foreigners resident in Buenos
Ayres' to those living in the city of Buenos Aires, in the suburbs around the
city and those living in the province of Buenos Aires. Foreigners who lived in
the other Argentine provinces are barely mentioned.

I have adopted a standardized form of spelling for a number of street
and place names, for example the streets Maipú and 25 de Mayo instead of
Maypu and Mayo, and Mercedes and Luján instead of Villa Mercedes and
Villa de Luxán. Mulhall uses a small number of abbreviations such as
P.P. and C.E., which I have interpreted as parish priest and construction
(or civil?) engineer.

Where Mulhall locates an address by giving the intersection of two
streets, I have adopted the Argentine convention, as in the following
two examples: 'Riobamba y Tucumán' for the Irish Convent and College,
and '25 de Mayo y Cuyo' for St John's English Church and School.

Acknowledgements
I am very grateful to the following friends for the practical help and
encouragement that made it possible to publish these web pages devoted to
the Mulhall brothers' list: Cathy Murray, Edmundo Murray and Graeme Wall.
Jeremy Howat, January 2002